This volume is the first in-depth study of a recently discovered Sanskrit dharani spell text from around the 5th century CE surviving in two palm-leaf and three paper manuscript compendia from Nepal. This rare Buddhist scripture focuses on the ritual practice of thaumaturgic weather control for successful agriculture through overpowering mythical Nagas. Traditionally, these ser...(展开全部)

This volume is the first in-depth study of a recently discovered Sanskrit dharani spell text from around the 5th century CE surviving in two palm-leaf and three paper manuscript compendia from Nepal. This rare Buddhist scripture focuses on the ritual practice of thaumaturgic weather control for successful agriculture through overpowering mythical Nagas. Traditionally, these ser...(展开全部)

作者简介： 迪杰·法桑（Didier Fassin）生于1955年，是法国人类学家和社会学家，兼任法国高等社会科学院和美国普林斯顿高等研究院社会科学领域终身教授，已被任命为法兰西学院公共卫生主席。他曾在塞内加尔、厄瓜多尔、南非和法国进行实地研究。他最近的研究与“惩罚”和“生命”这两个主题有关，前者他在伯克利的坦纳人类价值讲座中有所论述；后者则是他在法兰克福学派大本营“阿多诺纪念讲座”的演讲主题，本书的三个主要章节便根源于此，浓缩并融汇了这位学者毕生工作的精华所在。 译者简介： 边和，1984年生，毕业于北京大学生命科学学院，获哈佛大学科学史博士学位。现任普林斯顿大学历史系与东亚系副教授。

How can we think of life in its dual expression, matter and experience, the living and the lived? Philosophers and, more recently, social scientists have offered multiple answers to this question, often privileging one expression or the other – the biological or the biographical. But is it possible to conceive of them together and thus reconcile naturalist and humanist approach...(展开全部)

Thomas Reid (1710-1796) is increasingly seen as a philosopher of lasting importance and as a central figure in the Scottish Enlightenment. Intellectual Powers is his greatest work. It covers far more philosophical ground than the earlier, more popular Inquiry. Intellectual Powers and its companion volume, Essays on the Active Powers of Man, constitute the fullest, most original...(展开全部)

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝(William Butler Yeats，1865-1939)，爱尔兰诗人、剧作家。生于都柏林。父亲是画家。曾在都柏林市立美术学校学习，并开始写诗。1889年，叶芝成为爱尔兰民族自治运动的骨干。1891年与诗友组织“诗人俱乐部”和“爱尔兰文学会”，主张诗歌要有梦境的朦胧、含蓄和超俗。早期创作具有唯美主义倾向，著名作品有诗剧《心愿之乡》和诗《被拐逃的孩子》、《十字路口》、《茵尼斯弗利岛》等。 1896年叶芝结识了剧作家格雷戈里夫人，此后的创作都得力于她的支持。叶芝与她一起收集爱尔兰民间文学，又一同创建了爱尔兰文学剧院，即后来的阿贝剧院，创作了一批关于爱尔兰历史和农民生活的戏剧。这时的叶芝诗风明朗，作品充满民族热情，重要作品有诗剧《胡里痕的凯瑟琳》、《黛尔丽德》等，另有诗集《苇问风》、《在七座树林中》、《绿盔》、《责任》等，并陆续出版...(展开全部)

Endymion Wilkinson's bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. The New Manual introduces students to different types of transmitted, excavated, and artifactual sources from prehistory to the twenty-first century. It also examines the context in which the sources were produced, pre...(展开全部)

http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674088467 Endymion Wilkinson’s bestselling manual of Chinese history has long been an indispensable guide to all those interested in the civilization and history of China. The hugely enlarged third edition won the Stanislas Julien Prize for 2014. In the fourth edition the entire work has been corrected and updated and many section...(展开全部)

肯尼斯・弗兰姆普敦，1930年生，建筑师、建筑史家及评论家，曾作为一名建筑师在伦敦AA（建筑协会）建筑学院接受培训，现为美国哥伦比亚大学建筑规划研究生院威尔讲席教授。他曾任教于本学科内许多一流的院校，其中包括伦敦皇家艺术学院，苏黎世ETH学院，阿姆斯特丹伯拉杰学院（Berlage Institute），洛桑EPFL及维吉尼亚大学。他写有大量关于现当代建筑的论著，并从1986－1990年担任由密斯・凡・德・罗基金会赞助的位于巴塞罗那的EEC欧洲建筑奖评委会主席。

Social media are an integral part of contemporary society; transforming the way we communicate, use information and understand the world, so we must explore critical questions about social media and dig deeper into issues of ownership, power, class and (in)justice. This book does just that, equipping students with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions ...(展开全部)